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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO<br/>
<span class=large>ST JOHN</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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Jesus’ kinsmen believe not—He teaches his Father’s doctrine and proclaims his divine Sonship—Truth may be known through obedience—He offers living water to all men—Divers opinions concerning him.
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After</span> these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 5: 16 (16, 18).">sought</a> to <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 11: 53 (53-54).">kill</a> him.
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Now the Jews’ <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 23: 34 (34-43).">feast</a> of tabernacles was at hand.
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His <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 12: 46; 1 Cor. 9: 5.">brethren</a> therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
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For <i>there is</i> no man <i>that</i> doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly.  If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
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For neither did his brethren believe in him.
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Then Jesus said unto them, My <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 26: 18.">time</a> is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
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The world cannot hate you; but me it <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 16: 2 (1-3).">hateth</a>, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Evil.">evil</a>.
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Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
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When he had said these words unto them, he abode <i>still</i> in Galilee.
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&#182; But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
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Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
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And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
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Howbeit no man spake openly of him for <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 19: 38.">fear</a> of the Jews.
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&#182; Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
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And the Jews <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 2: 46 (46-47).">marvelled</a>, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
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Jesus answered them, and said, My <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/16a" mark="a" type="C" title="Matt. 7: 28; John 8: 28; 2 Ne. 31: 21; TG Gospel; TG Jesus Christ, Teaching Mode of.">doctrine</a> is not mine, but his that <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Authority of; TG Jesus Christ, Messenger of the Covenant.">sent</a> me.
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If any man will <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Good Works; TG Obedience.">do</a> his <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Will of.">will</a>, he shall <sup>c</sup><a href="john/7/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Discernment, Spiritual; TG Testimony; TG Truth.">know</a> of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or <i>whether</i> I speak of myself.
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He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 5: 41 (41-43).">glory</a>: but he that seeketh his <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 8: 50; D&C 88: 67; Moses 4: 2 (1-3).">glory</a> that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
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Did not Moses give you the law, and <i>yet</i> none of you keepeth the law?  Why go ye about to kill me?
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The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
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Moses therefore gave unto you <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Circumcision.">circumcision</a>; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
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If a man on the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbath.">sabbath</a> day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 5: 8 (8-9).">whole</a> on the sabbath day?
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<sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Judgment.">Judge</a> not according to <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/24b" mark="b" type="H" title="JST John 7: 24  . . .  your traditions, but judge  . . .">the</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="john/7/24c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 11: 3.">appearance</a>, but judge righteous judgment.
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Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
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But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him.  Do the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 3: 1 (1-2).">rulers</a> know indeed that this is the very Christ?
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Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
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Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Truth.">true</a>, whom ye know not.
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But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/29a" mark="a" type="C" title="John 13: 3; TG Jesus Christ, Authority of; TG Jesus Christ, Messenger of the Covenant.">sent</a> me.
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Then they <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 10: 39.">sought</a> to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/30b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 12: 23 (23-27).">hour</a> was not yet come.
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And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this <i>man</i> hath done?
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&#182; The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
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Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and <i>then</i> I go unto him that sent me.
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Ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 13: 33 (33, 36).">seek</a> me, and shall not find <i>me:</i> and <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/34b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 29: 29; D&C 76: 112 (51-112).">where</a> I am, <sup>c</sup><a href="john/7/34c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Pet. 3: 22."><i>thither</i></a> ye <sup>d</sup><a href="john/7/34d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 25: 15.">cannot</a> come.
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Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him?  will he go unto the dispersed among the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/35a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR Greeks.">Gentiles</a>, and teach the Gentiles?
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What <i>manner of</i> saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find <i>me:</i> and where I am, <i>thither</i> ye cannot come?
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In the last day, that great <i>day</i> of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/37a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 42: 2 (1-3); Ps. 143: 6 (5-12); Isa. 55: 1 (1-3); John 4: 14 (13-15); John 6: 35.">thirst</a>, let him come unto me, and <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/37b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Living Water.">drink</a>.
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He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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(But this spake he of the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/39a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Gift of.">Spirit</a>, which they that believe on him should receive: <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/39b" mark="b" type="H" title="JST John 7: 39  . . .  for the Holy Ghost was promised unto them who believe, after that Jesus was glorified.).">for</a> the Holy Ghost was not yet <i>given;</i> because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
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&#182; Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/40a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 9: 17; 1 Ne. 22: 20 (20-21).">Prophet</a>.
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Others said, This is the Christ.  But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
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Hath not the scripture said, That <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/42a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 5: 2; Matt. 2: 6.">Christ</a> cometh of the seed of <sup>b</sup><a href="john/7/42b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Davidic Descent of.">David</a>, and out of the town of <sup>c</sup><a href="john/7/42c" mark="c" type="C" title="1 Sam. 16: 1; Micah 5: 2; Luke 2: 4; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">Bethlehem</a>, where David was?
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So there was a <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/43a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 10: 34.">division</a> among the people because of him.
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And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
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&#182; Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
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The officers answered, Never man <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/46a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Teaching with the Spirit.">spake</a> like this man.
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Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/47a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jacob 4: 14 (13-14).">deceived</a>?
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Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
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But this people who knoweth not the law are <sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/49a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">cursed</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="john/7/50a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 3: 1.">Nicodemus</a> saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
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Doth our law judge <i>any</i> man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
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They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee?  Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
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And every man went unto his own house.
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